Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

5 June 2025 00:00 BST

Our live blog is now closed until tomorrow morning.

Here are the day's key developments:

- As of Wednesday, the number of the identified dead from Israeli attacks in Gaza since 7 October 2023 is 54,607, local officials said. 

- Fourteen members of the 15-member United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but a US veto killed the resolution. 

- The United Nations' aid chief has said that recent "horrifying scenes" of Palestinians in Gaza being killed by Israeli forces while trying to access food aid were the result of "deliberate choices". 

- The UK government has called for an "immediate and independent investigation" into the deaths of Palestinians at aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip this week.

- Israeli arms exports hit an all-time high of $14.7bn in 2024, according to the defence ministry, including a sharp rise in deals with Arab states. 

- Israel's opposition party Yesh Atid, led by former prime minister Yair Lapid, is moving to vote to topple the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week.